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An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour today killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act. "I do not rule out that this gift could have been brought from outside," President Alexander Lukashenko said. The authoritarian leader, under strong pressure from the West over his suppression of the opposition, has frequently alleged outside forces seek to destabilize his regime.

Several witnesses said that the explosion hit the crowded Oktyabrskaya station just as passengers were stepping off a train about 6pm. Lukashenko visited the site about two hours after the blast and left without comment. He later ordered that the country's feared police to "call in all forces and turn everything inside-out" to investigate. Health Minister Vasily Zharko said 11 people were killed and 126 people were wounded, 22 severely. One man said he was getting off a train when "there was a large flash, an explosion and heavy smoke. I fell on my knees and crawled ... bodies were piled on each other." He said he saw a man with a severed leg and rushed to help him. "But then I saw he was dead."

Wouldn't it be cool if all Americans knew where Belarus was? Or its history? Nice forests where all those officers were shot in the head and buried in a mass grave--Russians killed by the Nazis. Borders the Ukraine so it got its share of Chernobyl cause the wind was blowing NE that day. The Soviet Union was many countries cobbled together. This is the only one that still has the same leader today as then. You needed to be there to see the people tear through the palace in Romania and kill not only that guy but his wife, too. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. Look it up. A good Soviet story--they would just wipe history out. So, when Beria was killed if you owned reference books they sent you a few more pages on the Bering Strait and you were supposed to tear out the Beria part. See how that works? There are people alive in Minsk today who did that. Know how easily this country could become Belarus? Keep voting your own personal agenda and find out. We only have a constitution as long as a majority says we do.